Group exhibition of contemporary art "Les Briques du Temps" (The Bricks of Time)

Les Briques du Temps (The Bricks of Time) – this exhibition title opens a path of reflection on memory, time, and space as they are embedded in architecture, material culture, and individual experience.
Architecture, in this context, is not seen as a neutral space, but as a vehicle of memory, capable of recording the traces of time. Each brick, each crack on a faсade, each worn threshold is not merely a material element, but a testimony of lived experience.
This is not simply about chronological time, but about personal time — vulnerable and fragmented — an intimate, fragile, and often nearly forgotten time.
The exhibition echoes the reflections of Marcel Proust, who wrote:
"The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at the time; the memory of a certain image is merely the regret of a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues, are as fleeting, alas, as the years."
Les Briques du Temps (The Bricks of Time) explores how buildings, streets, and everyday objects can become carriers of memory — both collective and personal. This memory is not only fixed in the visual image, but also in matter, in sounds, in smells — through a multiplicity of sensory channels by which space becomes an archive of time.
An essential aspect of the exhibition’s conception is the idea of place as a mirror of identity. Significant spaces and objects shape certain facets of the "self", and by returning to them, the individual reconnects with a past version of themselves. This encounter with personal history takes on an almost existential dimension: “I was, and I am.”
As part of the European Heritage Days, the exhibition Les Briques du Temps (The Bricks of Time) poses the following question: what do we preserve when we protect heritage? The form or the meaning? The material or the memory it contains?
The artists in the project turn to real or utopian spaces, fragments of the urban landscape or intimate histories, disappearing cultures or traces of everyday life.
Here, the "brick" is not only a unit of construction, but becomes a metaphor for time inscribed in space — a material testimony to the way the past continues to exist within the present.